"I would like to see what is inside the cocoons," Walden says.
Assuming he can reach a cocoon, he goes to carefully cut it open. On the off chance that there is something alive inside, he'll be careful not to cut clean through, but instead to cut open the side and peel open the cocoon.

"Yergamuffin!" Walden yells in frustration as he struggled to free himself from a sticky web, and in doing so gets even more entangled.

"Leave me, save yourselves," he calls out to the others. "If I do nothing else in life, perhaps I can give indigestion to a spider. Plus maybe some intoxication, if it eats me whole. A drunken spider should certainly be easier for you all to kill than a sober one."